Everyone who teaches art knows them: the assignment that is seemingly simple but which challenges participants, students, and pupils to the max. We are looking for assignments from artists, musicians, designers, theatre makers, dancers, art teachers—anyone who, at a school or somewhere else, teaches children, youngsters, adults, the elderly, anything goes. Melissa Bremmer and Emiel Heijnen (Research Group Arts Education) and publishing house Valiz will collect all these challenging, original and contrary assignments in a book.
Wicked Arts Assignments:
Heijnen and Bremmer will collect the 100 best and most challenging assignments in a book. Each assignment will be accompanied by an explanation, a biography of the artist or teacher and images of the sources of inspiration or elaborations of the assignment. In addition to the descriptions of the 100 assignments the book will contain a theoretical framework in which Heijnen, Bremmer and others will discuss educational design and strategies for making challenging art assignments. This visually enticing book will be published by Valiz, Amsterdam, and is meant for a broad audience of art teachers, artists, educational experts and anyone who is interested in the practices of present-day art teachers. It offers inspiration for original and contrary lessons that reflect the themes, ways of working and concepts from international art and educational practices.